skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also found out the same thing, but it's mostly related to paid software in general. It's a lot easier to sell expensive software. The lower your set the price the more "cheap" customers you will have, which results in more support tickets, maintenance, marketing needed, etc. The customers who want lower prices are also those who would be more critical of your product, as the price they paid for it means more to them compared to someone who doesn't mind spending $50/mo for a basic service.

I am still trying to find a way to accommodate for both enterprise customers and low-budget customers. I tried doing this using some simple licensing terms (eg. get this if you are a solo dev, get this if you are large business), but people will just buy the cheapest option that has the features they want. This makes it hard to offer the same features at different prices and might lead to either downgrading the basic product or adding some buzzword features for the enterprise product.
maybe when your favorite hyperinflation currency has a “stable” coin. Until then there is doge.
The choosing host part is exactly why I want to emphasize that nothing has changed in regards to hosting.

Just like before someone needs to host the "message board" and that someone needs to be relied upon.

I often see posts on fediverse related subreddits of people who are dismayed because their instance admin did something. They expect every instance to be a "Mastodon instance" and follow some sort of rules.

People need to be reminded of the internet that was. Before Facebook and Twitter started to run it for them.
Yes, I guess what I was getting at is that while the NYT isn't being helpful, the root of the problem is elsewhere.
Hyundai Ioniq, Renault Zoe, VW IDx, at least
Most products can kill someone. Entire lines of products routinely kill its user. Society deems them worth the risk. A no risk life is sitting alone in a room, where you will die to obesity.
Personal experience (Germany, non-techie contacts):

- about 20% of my active conversations have now moved to Telegram

- about 5% of my active conversations have now moved to Signal
> I don't see how the state can manage a problem better than a city.

This is the core argument of economic conservatism. One level up is “CA knows CA better than the Feds”. One level down is “I know my family better than my town”.
I know a few devs who are hosting opensource alternatives of popular service like Dropbox. Other more extreme are hosting their own dns on pi-hole, email servers, etc.
> I am amazed that against all common advice people still venture out into heavily competitive segments with strong incumbents.

"There is always room": https://archive.is/xPiWc#selection-272.98-272.100

Also, I think there are a lot of exceptions and counter examples especially in the startup world.

According to some, if you're out to build a monopoly, that's a different ball-game, and it then makes sense to steer clear of any market with competition with deep pockets (walmart) unless you've something revolutionary up your sleeve that can't be easily replicated / duplicated (amazon).

One of the most striking examples I know is facebook.com: They had fierce competition from copy-cats (vk) and other companies that had their own take on social (orkut, friendster). Some lost (path, color), others won (whatsapp, twitter), and/or are winning (tiktok).

There is always more room than one may be led to think.
The point is you'll never need to replace the engine in a BMW unless you got into an accident or something like that. EV batteries will just degrade with normal usage.
Pen and paper? (HHOS)

Edit: With pen and paper you can structure your code however you want. You can use any symbols you fancy. I like blank paper, with no grid/lines.
And of course, I use the cloud tools availabe to me to detect performance. In my case it is cloud watch in AWS, and all the "Monitor" pages for various services I use.
Only female mosquitos suck blood, and they only suck blood when developing eggs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito#Egg_development_and_b...
> letting people be imperfect about how they run their charities is a good thing

I disagree - charities receive special protections and privileges from the public and in return they agree to make themselves accountable.

If they aren't making themselves be accountable then they aren't keeping their side of the agreement with the public and their protections and privileges should be revoke.
That's exactly the capacitor that blew for the author in the article.
PS: I want to add why i think they shouldn't.

Using a single sensor to control a plane is a mistake, which not even an undergraduate engineer would do. There is no way this was just accidentally badly designed.

They made this on purpose to change lives for $$
It does, you just have to dress it up correctly.

You have incentives to want people to be personally weak and historically ignorant, but still able to shuffle papers and make new widgets to make gdp line go up.

It's in your best interests for the country to despise you, and the other half to despise your counterpart- so that both halves despise each other and can't coordinate toward their common interests.

You want the subgroups motivated to vote for your side by problems they face to keep voting for your side next time around, so you're incentivized to make a big show of trying to fix their problems, but not actually fix them and blame the failure on the other side.

And when the day is done, you and the opposition leader can have a drink in your mansion.

This is all evil in a molochian sense, and it all makes sense.
I did my first online grocery order in the middle of pandemic. I needed to wait to 6 days :D
Some of these have been posted, but for those that like transcripts with a bit more order than video content dumps, here they are (different versions, as this has been done trough the years)

http://archive.cra.org/Activities/grand.challenges/kay.pdf

http://worrydream.com/refs/Kay%20-%20The%20Real%20Computer%2...

There's also a paper for those with access or a penchant for piracy

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.100/978-3-322-89884-5_3

What I think we need is:

1) A global policy where computers are taught from scientific principles, with no tie-in to closed platforms or paradigms, throughout the education system

2) Ownership of data by data creators, with no platform tie-in, mandated standards for migration and access control

3) Engineers insisting on adherence to ethical standards for computing, such as doing no harm to humans. A case would be engineers actively participating in reviewing damage from tweaking algorithms for increased user engagement on crud platforms (time spent).
So if you have an EV you are pretty much guarenteed a parking space?

How is that making it worse?
I'm not so sure. I went on a cruise ship a few years ago, and they've got you on the hook for everything while you're there. Our cabin bill came to over £200 and all we did was have a (really) few drinks in the bar on a couple of nights. There was no internet either, so you'd better bring along a laptop and a lot of movies.
> Great, leaking the user's email address which, more often than not, contains their real name is so much better. /s

Thankfully getting unlimited anonymous phone numbers easy and free /s

Unlike unlimited anonymous email addresses /s
If you can get it, that sounds great. But competing with Amazon's scale sounds like a horrendously difficult problem.

But yes, filtering through the cruft and garbage on Amazon seems to get worse every year, which opens up an opportunity for more traditional retailers that don't have the same problem with a million variations on the same thing by shady companies taking up search results space.
Indie dev got Elon Musk to Tweet him
The virus hasn't been around long enough to make that claim.
Beware of the malicious PR campaign carried out by Facebook. The terms did change in a negative way, it’s enough to read them to see it. Even for EU users. Later, when Facebook realized this time things would not be ignored, they started their PR campaign. First the claimed that in EU there would be no changes, then (first time I see it in the linked article) they claimed that there were no changes anywhere in the world. At the end of the day what matters is what is in the terms, not what the spokesperson claims. And in the terms there is no opt-out from sharing data with Facebook.
Africa used to swear on blackberry messenger. Infact what killed BBM is android and whatsapp
Same here in Israel. They accept our lunch benefits card, which my employer got more generous with during WFH. So I spend about 100 usd each week with them. If I am not hungry I buy gift cards and add them to my account (the lunch money expires at the end of the week is I don't use it)
> They have no legitimacy in this case, and just because an agency exists, doesn't really give it legitimacy either.

What does legitimacy mean to you in this context? I don't disagree that mere existence doesn't grant it, but I'm not sure I understand what (or who) would, in your view.
> I tried to reason with them and they don't seem to listen.

The problem is, you have put yourself there in the opposition.
That they are threatened with losing there jobs is actually reinforcing their belief.

Personally, I haven't had much luck in practice here, so my knowledge is more theoretical.

But I've been told, that reasoning is the worst way to approach this topic.

What I've been suggested is trying emotion and empathy. Give up the expectation to be able to push them in the direction where you want them to go. Rather focus on that they should understand, why you _care_ about it. Because you care for them.

I understand, that you are rejecting their position completely (and from my point of view you are right), but try to understand where they coming from without communicating the scepticism and your objections directly or in subtext.

Not that I think they are right, but chances are there are some good reason how they got into that. Likely they want to know the truth. Encourage them in that process without pushing for a direction. Consider it that way, they were willing to question official lines, then they might also amenable to question the resources they currently trust.
They are not competing in Berlin against Delivery Hero. Delivery Hero exited Germany and sold Foodora, Pizza.de AND Lieferheld.de to Lieferando: who promptly shut those 3 platforms down leaving only Lieferando.

So now Wolt is competing in Berlin in takeaway food market against only Lieferando, and seeing as they only started last year, Google Trends suggests they are getting a reasonable % of the market already, somewhere around 12% of Berlin online food delivery:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=DE-BE&q=liefera...
> No by all means, make random claims and don't back them up! It's a much better use of everyone's time

Some self-awareness would serve you.
It's close to twitter in features but it's important to understand the hosting aspect.

Facebook and Twitter have been hosting our social media for years, in a centralized way.

Federation makes this possible for every person, denctralized.

So essentially we're back to 12-15 years ago when private people were still hosting message boards for each other. All that changes is that those message boards can now federate content.

And everyone who remembers those days know that hosting a message board that became popular was a struggle.

Which is why I've opted to keep my instance small through various steps I won't say here but they aren't ground breaking or secret. I just don't want to give away my identity because this is my secret account on HN.

After 4 years on the fediverse, listening to issues, reading threads, my opinion is that we should focus on many smaller instance rather than a few huge ones.
Not sure how well it will work, we want things that grab our attention, that is why companies do that. If they don't, someone else will.
Snowflake is based on FoundationDB which was proprietary for years but is now open sourced, developed by Apple. So it's maybe more like open core than totally proprietary.
That's good to hear, they don't operate where I live but I'll be sure to give them a try when do. I just hope that it's not a temporary thing, I seem to recall that many of these services often start with very advantageous terms for everybody involved in order to drive adoption only to slash all that when they reach critical mass. The relative lack of regulation and collective bargaining makes it very easy to do.
If you don't mind, can you show us what this 40 LOC looks like?
Ah this begins to make sense now

Tjey have a secret sauce for the finnish market.

So they funded ops via captive market

Still, Seems like a crazy bet by investors unless such schemes are available and exploitable elsewhere
The next uber? only time will tell
Dropping WhatsApp? Nostalgia Drives Users to ICQ
That's really funny, 50 years from now? Backpropagation is not a law of physics, you know. Thanks for making me laugh ;).
I assume you never accidently left nails or broken glass in your parking space?
VS Code Setup for Web Developers on MacBook Pro M1
Being a software engineer,I do want to share a road with you more than any self-driving tech out there today.

You need to experience truly bad roads to understand the complexity involved that you would easily navigate and software would be perplexed!

Sure, we need to be building it today to get there some day, but we are so far away!
Its pretty easy to avoid that if you're prepared. Most lines let you bring on at least 1 bottle of wine or similar per person (which is plenty for us over 3 days). Avoiding expensive cocktails, drinks packages, dining experiences etc means its pretty easy to leave with a cabin bill of nearly zero. I've done that many times.

Working in tech I personally find the lack of internet a plus.
I do see orange couriers around as well, I think it's 10bis. But I only use Wolt. They have excellent customer service, in the rare occasion that an order I placed was delivered incorrectly (missing dish etc) they made it right very quickly and with no fuss.

They also provide support in both English and Hebrew, which is is a nice benefit over the local companies that can help you in Hebrew.
This looks really neat, cannot wait to read the paper to see the details.

The other research db I saw recently I liked was sirix (https://github.com/sirixdb) - I can certainly see some room for cross-over between these two.
May you introduce yourself, please? Cause the accounts look like throwaways. That's weird.
Interesting, good luck to them.

In my country at least (Croatia) Wolt seems to stand out from the rest by competing on quality of service and delivery instead of price, and slowly during this year they have won me over.

I'll gladly pay something extra to support a business model I trust and which just works better.
Yes, Samsung's EUV process is in production since 2019.
People that are interested in a similar feature set should check out https://github.com/attic-labs/noms and the SQL fork of Noms, https://github.com/dolthub/dolt
As we humans also make up the definitions of all the word, we can certainly be generous and mess a bit with the definition of science to also cover mathematics. Given its importance for the other sciences, it seems a bit mean to exclude it from the club. And if you really want to exclude mathematics, you can simply refer to empirical sciences or whatnot and mathematics will understand. [1]

[1] The Platonists might however disagree.
IntelliJ is open source. It was once proprietary but these days is "open core".

The Ultimate edition is the open source version of IJ with more plugins. However the rebranded non-Java versions like Goland aren't open source, unless you consider the IJ base. They are the core language plugin(s) + integration and rebranding code.
I've been using Signal for a long while -- most comments I see here already mention enough similarities/differences, so I'll just add one that drove me there first:

- WhatsApp still does not have an iPad native app that talks to its servers without any interaction with my phone.

Yes, I can use the web version (and have the desktop one on my Macs), but Signal just worked on all my devices (including my iPad) from day one of my adopting it years back, and it is embarrassing that WhatsApp never really bothered.
Don't you get free deliveries up the wazoo with Amazon if you have Prime? I don't really know how one can compete with that.
Is there somewhere I can check whether a particular flight number is usually served by 737 Max? I would certainly use it for shopping flights.
When I was a kid there was a book called Professor Fortran's Encyclopedia which came with similar paper models. Unfortunately, I didn't own the book (took it from a library) so I wasn't able to build them :)
Because life - at least hear on earth - is pretty much made up by all kinds of bacteria and virus.

So aliens might wipe us out, because their system can't handle it. But parent spoke about the right to fight, when we would attack, like ticks do attack us, like other parsites.
Interesting one, do you know how this scale as the ID is set on each entry?
that article says the driver fell asleep and the car crashed into pedestrians.

The original comment said "driver" died after falling asleep on autopilot - there has been no such case of that occurring.
I'm so fed up with misleading headlines. This is Javascript only, why is it not in the headline?, why does it say "all frameworks" and doesn't say "Javascript"?
On a more serious note, most uses of Docker that I've seen push problems back, and have accumulating technical debt (with interest).

* Robust systems shouldn't be tied to pinned versions. If your code works with PostgreSQL 9.6.19, and doesn't work with 9.6.20 or 9.6.18, that's usually the sign of something going very, very wrong.

* In particular, robust systems should always work with the latest versions of libraries. In most cases, they should work with stock versions of libraries too (whatever comes with Ubuntu LTS, Fedora, or similar). It's okay if you have one or two dependencies in a system beyond that, but if it's a messy web, that's a sign of something going very, very wrong.

* Even if that's not happening, as much as I appreciate having decoupled, independent teams, your whole system should work with the same versions of tools and libraries. If one microservice only works with PostgreSQL 11.10, and another with 12.07, that's a sign of something having gone way off the rails.

These aren't hard-and-fast rules -- exceptional circumstances come up (e.g. if you're porting Python 2->Python 3, everything might not land at the same time) -- but these should be rare enough to be individually approved (and usually NOT approved) by your chief architect/architecture council/CTO/however you structure this thing.

For the most part, I've seen Docker act as an enabler of bad practices:

* Each developer can have an identical install, so version dependencies creep in

* Each team has their own container, and it's easy for versions and technologies to diverge

* With per-team setups, you end up with an uncontrollable security perimeter, since you need to apply patches to a half-dozen different versions of the same library (or worse, libraries performing the same function)

The docker/microservices/etc. mode of operating gives a huge short-term productivity boost, but I haven't actually seen a case on teams I've been on where the benefits outweigh the long-term costs. That's not to say they don't exist, but they're in the minority.

For the most part, I use Python virtual environments and similar, but by the time you hit docker, I back away.
I'm trying to remember where I read it, but someone once penned an article, crying about the crime of exterminating smallpox.

They were serious about it, too.

I wouldn't worry. I'm sure that both Russia and the US have some saved up...just in case.
[Handbook] How to manipulate and filter AWS Step Functions input/output data?
Interesting, do you have any references explaining how/why z/TPF is a unikernel? Thanks!
Why are telegram’s owners assigned to be better than Facebook?

I can see some benefit with Signal being open source.
I honestly thought it was EU wide, but apparently their main markets are scandinavia and eastern europe.

Great service, great business model.
As mentioned above, the Queen Mary II apparently still operates (maybe not during Pandemic) as a liner. But it takes 7 days, not 3.
> I don't really know how one can compete with that

I’ll pay for delivery if I can be sure it’s coming from the manufacturer. Not only is counterfeit risk minimised; the product’s freshness is also maximised.
Is GitLab profitable? They seem to have $120M in 2019 revenue but I'm not sure how big they are.

GitHub got big but then sold to MS. I'm not sure it was ever big in terms of profits. If the argument for investing in open source companies is that they can get a big exit by selling to a proprietary software company then I'm not sure the argument is strong.
Lwt [1] based web frameworks can be used on MirageOS if they provide an interface that allows someone to swap out the unix dependent pieces. One such framework is Opium [2], that provides most of its features in a unix independent code library `opium_kernel`. Its fairly straightforward to run an opium app on mirage. This example needs to be updated to the newest apis in the released version of Opium but this can provide some hints about how to run an opium app on mirage: https://github.com/anuragsoni/ocaml-opium-unikernel.

If a lower level web toolkit is sufficient then ocaml's cohttp [3] library has been available on mirage for quite some time now.

[1] https://github.com/ocsigen/lwt/

[2] https://github.com/rgrinberg/opium

[3] https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-cohttp/
Privacy Sandbox in 2021: Testing a more private web
I am not going to jump to any conclusions until 'Arathorn posts here a 10-paragraph long comment explaining how this is expected and even good for Matrix.
Renault Zoe is popular in Europe. It's just as "boring" as a regular Renault.
When I was a kid it was acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer.

Thankfully, thanks to legislation (reducing SO2 emissions for the acid rain, the Montreal Protocol banning the production of CFC's and co on the other) those issues have been resolved.

What predictions of doom have you heard from your childhood that are still a thing? I mean climate change is still a thing, and it seems to take a lot more investments to resolve it.
...and raise local temperatures, just a bit...
Yes, basically here is Thomas the main author https://viereck.ch/thomas/ and I am working with him since 7 years https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-mouradian/

We used to work without being connected, I got your point we will put a presentation of ourselves in this github page or the website.
Prime isn’t free. They charge a monthly fee for it.
I use element/matrix because I don't want to need a phone to use signal. But signal seems to be the most "migrated to" alternative.
I loved that blog, but it's been stalled for ages now. No new posts in a year(ish).
New service creates an email paywall
A Bored Developer Turned a Tweet into a 6-Figure Business
Because it is as easily replaceable as a bank card, in case it gets compromised? Oh, wait...
Brazilian Portuguese speakers would have a blast living in Metropica.
Railway in the Chinese city Dalian stopped working after Adobe banned Flash
> a lump of meat called a copilot.

Looks like that's how they fixed the issue.

> aviation authorities in some countries implemented new regulations that require two authorized personnel to be present in the cockpit of large passenger aircraft

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525#Regula...